Obesity: tackling the causes of the causes
Growing evidence of the links between overweight and severity of covid-19 outcomes has added even greater urgency to the imperative to act on the large and increasing epidemic of obesity. […]
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Nigel Edwards: Plans to shake-up the NHS have a central flaw
Those of us who have been involved in the NHS for a long time will have felt a sinking feeling when they read recently that Boris Johnson, the UK prime […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Power
Last week I outlined some basic pharmacokinetic principles that can inform the likelihood that a newly proposed treatment may be effective, given only in vitro evidence. I showed that the […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—23 July 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Nigel Crisp: A new settlement for health and wellbeing
The NHS has been magnificent during the pandemic, fighting for our lives over the last few weeks and months. But it’s been up to us, the general public, to limit how […]
Anna Charles: This is not the right time for a wholesale NHS reorganisation
You might expect, in the midst of a global pandemic, that unpicking the inner workings of the organisations that run and oversee the national health service would be far from […]
Laura Nunez-Mulder: it’s not selfish to study through the pandemic
This morning I tried to memorise the causes of hyponatraemia. Does it help anyone unwell with covid-19 that a medical student knows this list by heart? Does it lighten the […]
Pharmaceutical companies should publish more research open access
Many organisations are working towards making scientific publications more transparent, discoverable, accessible, and accountable, but wouldn’t it be better if all these organisations could work together? In June, Open Pharma, […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—17 July 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Looking ahead: the post pandemic future of surgery
Covid-19 has had an immeasurably profound effect on our healthcare system in the UK. While it may be true that we are now past the peak, and hospitalisations as a […]